Positively transform and drive sustainable improvements in performance and results

Whether you follow rugby or not … you’d have to be impressed with the way Eddie Jones, the coach, has transformed performance and results. Winning the Grand Slam  –  and, for the first time, achieving a series win in Australia  –   with more or less the same squad who were humiliated in November at their own World Cup by failing

Every business we ever speak with is looking for some kind of business improvement  –  or lots of kinds! When we have discussions with the Board of Directors and/or Senior Leadership Teams we ask where they’ve been looking for the solutions. The usual answers are system and process improvements, productivity and quality projects and the like. When we ask them

As a leader you’ll know that internal communication between teams and departments is important for any organisation to function effectively. However, a recent survey found that the one mistake organisations make the most in managing their employees … is a lack of communication between employees and management. The way we’ve helped improve our clients’ internal communication has also had a

You’ll probably know 78% of business leaders rank employee retention as a critical business indicator? What might come as a surprise is that nearly 33% of talent leave their job within the first six months. Great companies know how to attract talent … it’s the really successful companies, however, that know how to attract and retain it. Discovering the steps

We’ve just completed reviews with some of our clients on the culture change/business development work we delivered for them in 2015. The positive impact has been game changing for them all. Results Achieved: As a result of our work with an organisation in the global automotive sector had seen gross profit up by 17% Another organisation had seen a 36.5%

It’s a natural human aspiration to want to be more successful. No matter what an individual’s “version” of success is, there are certain characteristics that determine whether people are going to be successful   –  or unsuccessful. We’ve boiled down these characteristics into a simple to apply format of what to do: In order to be successful In order to avoid

Having worked extensively on global or pan-European business improvement programmes for many organisations, we learned some important differences from what’s said by the British  –  and what’s meant and what’s understood by other cultures. Can you relate to/recognise some of these? Of course you can! Effective and unambiguous communication is a key element of a strong “unstoppable”, “bring it on”

Achieving or exceeding stretching sales targets (whilst maintaining gross profit) seems to be beyond most organisations these days. Most sales managers and sales people blame the internet, the product offering or the price. However, the reason for this state of affairs couldn’t be any simpler, but organisations are looking in the wrong places to fix the problem: “We need better